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This release marks months of hard work for the young, scrappy, and hungry CLI team, and includes some changes we’ve been hoping to do for literally years. npm@5 takes npm a pretty big step forward, significantly improving its performance in almost all common situations, fixing a bunch of old errors due to the architecture, and just generally making it more robust and fault-tolerant. It comes with changes to make life easier for people doing monorepos, for users who want consistency/security guarantees, and brings semver support to git dependencies...

Relay Modern is a new version of Relay designed from the ground up to be easier to use, more extensible and, most of all, able to improve performance on mobile devices. Relay Modern accomplishes this with static queries and ahead-of-time code generation...

React Fiber is an ongoing reimplementation of React's core algorithm. It is the culmination of over two years of research by the React team. The goal of React Fiber is to increase its suitability for areas like animation, layout, and gestures. Its headline feature is incremental rendering: the ability to split rendering work into chunks and spread it out over multiple frames. Other key features include the ability to pause, abort, or reuse work as new updates come in; the ability to assign priority to different types of updates; and new concurrency primitives...

In TypeScript 2.3, we’re experimenting with a new “soft” form of checking in .js files, which brings many of the advantages of writing TypeScript without actually writing .ts files. After working closely with the Angular team, we’re happy to announce that TypeScript 2.3 officially makes a language server plugin API available. This API allows plugins to augment the regular editing experience that TypeScript already delivers. What all of this means is that you can get an enhanced editing experience for many different workloads...

Significantly increased performance - in some cases by 30%. Better compatibility - key for PFC's, class integrations, capturing events. Fewer edge cases - goodbye to unnecessary mounts and DOM hierarchy errors. Even smaller - Preact had been 3.9kb for a while - now it's 3.3kb (and headed for 2.9kb!)...

It's been exactly one year since the last breaking change to React. Our next major release, React 16, will include some exciting improvements, including a complete rewrite of React's internals. We take stability seriously, and are committed to bringing those improvements to all of our users with minimal effort...

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native...

Free and open source software has been part of Google's technical and organizational foundation since the beginning. We've launched a new website for Google Open Source that ties together all of our initiatives with information on how we use, release, and support open source...

There are many great coding principles, but it can be hard to keep them all in your head at once. Instead, I try to remember these three attitudes...

External developers may find it particularly useful when designing gRPC APIs for use with Google Cloud Endpoints, and we strongly recommend such developers use these design principles...

After the release of ECMAScript 2015, a.k.a. ES6, the ECMAScript Language Specification is evolving rapidly: it's getting many new features that will help developing web ...

See what is new in the Visual Studio Code January 2017 Release (1.9)...

As web developers, we know how easy it is to end up with web page bloat. But loading a webpage is much more than shipping bytes down the…

We analysed more than 40 000 000 questions and answers on stackoverflow.com to bring you the top of most mentioned books...

Deep Learning has been on the rise for some time. Recently people have started using Deep Learning in many fields...

Apple’s WebKit team today proposed a new Community Group at the W3C to discuss the future of 3D graphics on the Web, and to develop a standard API that exposes modern GPU features including low-level graphics and general purpose computation. W3C Community Groups allow all to freely participate, and we invite browser engineers, GPU hardware vendors, software developers and the Web community to join us...

We're sneaking in a little holiday gift at the end of the year: two new beta releases for developers to try out with the latest version of A...

Our Polymer 2.0 release comes with more than changes to the Polymer library. We’ve created a fresh fleet of updated demos, documentation, templates, and the Polymer Project’s catalog of elements. You’ll also have access to a suite of Web Components Tools that are designed to work with all Web Components, including those written in vanilla JavaScript...

One of the key internal guiding principles for us involved in the Node-ChakraCore project is to bring innovation to help advance the Node.js ecosystem. In that vein, we demoed a preview of Time-Travel debugging using VSCode earlier this year. This feature allows developers to capture trace of a running Node process, and then visualize the code execution inside of VSCode by stepping back in time...

VS Code now remembers your unsaved changes when you exit. A new picker is added that shows Views, Panels, Output channels and Terminals and allows for easy opening of those. Several improvements were made to the Integrated Terminal. On macOS, we are now drawing our own custom title instead of the native one to allow for the theme color to be picked up. This release we've added features to help you focus on your highest priority, your source code...

At the 8th and 9th of December 2016 was NG-BE, Belgium’s first Angular conference. Igor Minar (Angular lead dev) attended as the keynote speaker with some interesting announcements regarding Angular’s release schedule. Please read the entire post, there are a couple of important things....

inferno - An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces...

UTo help users browse the web safely, Chrome indicates connection security with an icon in the address bar. Historically, Chrome has not explicitly labelled HTTP connections as non-secure. Beginning in January 2017 (Chrome 56), we’ll mark HTTP pages that collect passwords or credit cards as non-secure, as part of a long-term plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure...

Today we are releasing React 15.4.0. In React 15.4.0, you can now visualize React components in the Chrome Timeline. This lets you see which components exactly get mounted, updated, and unmounted, how much time they take relative to each other...

WebVR development continues to happen at a fever pace. And while much of the work has been around refining aspects of the API that define how content is rendered into headsets and managing input devices, one of the most exciting recent developments is the added ability to navigate between WebVR...